Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3170: Marxism and Post-Structuralism

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level	6
Credits	30	ECTS Value	15
Term(s) and duration	This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks) and term 2 (11 weeks)
Academic staff	Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk (Convenor)
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
Available via distance learning	No

In this module you will critically appraise Marx’s analysis of capitalism in within its philosophical context. You will consider the continuing viability of that analysis in the light of subsequent developments in capitalism and bourgeois economic theory, the collapse of really existing communism in 1989, the resurgence of nationalism, globalisation and the financial crisis of 2008-9.
You will also outline some recent and contemporary post-structuralist philosophical positions as they relate themselves to the Marxist inheritance.

Module created	1.10.2011	Last revised	27.2.12